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- Title
COMUNIDADE DE ECTOPARASITOS E LEVANTAMENTO DE HEMOPARASITOS EM CÃES (CANIS LUPUS FAMILIARIS, LINNAEUS, 1758) RESIDENTES NO ENTORNO DA SERRA DE SÃO JOSÉ, MINAS GERAIS.
- Authors
FERREIRA RODRIGUES, ANDRÉ FLÁVIO SOARES; FIGUEREDO ROSA, MARINA HELENA; DE BRITO FERNANDES, LAURA; DA SILVA, EDUARDO SÉRGIO
- Abstract
The main objective in this paper was to describe the community of ectoparasites and hemoparasites in dogs in the vicinity of Serra de São José, Minas Gerais State. The survey involved 24 hosts in which samples of blood and ectoparasites were collected. The ectoparaistes were identified by stereoscopy or photonic microscopy. Hemoparasites were detected by blood smear with Giemsa stain and the diagnostic of Leishmania sp. was obtained by ELISA and RIFI. The most prevalent ectoparasite was Ctenocephalides felis felis (83.3%) followed Rhipicephalus sanguineus (33.3%). Immature ticks, Tunga penetrans, Trichodectes canis and Dermatobia hominis, were also found in lower prevalence. We registered morphological variations of chaetotaxy, in genus Ctenocephalides in 12.5% of the hosts. One hosdog was positive to Babesia canis and two dogs were reagent for Leishmania sp.
- Publication
Journal of Neotropical Biology / Revista de Biologia Neotropical, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1807-9652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5216/rbn.v1i1.37492